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TORCH.

No. 362,905. Patented May 10, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. B. SIBLEY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOEDWARD C. FRISBIE, OF SAME PLACE.

TORCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,905, dated May 10,18?.7.

Application filed Srptember14, l885. Serial No. 176,990. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. B. SIBLEY, of Hartford, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Torches, of which the followingis a description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 is aplan view of the blank used in making the tubular body of my improvedtorch. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the torch on an enlargedscale. Fig. 3 is a view of my improved torch in use.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and convenient torchfor use for pyrotechnic displays or for signaling; and my improvementconsists of a torch having a handle, of any suitable material that is anon-conductor of heat, and a body made of a single sheet of paper rolledinto tubular form, with walls formed of the several layers of the sheetand a thin end formed of a single layer folded down to close the end,and fastened, as by glue or cement, as more particularly hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes the torch-handle,which is preferably made of wood and of any convenient size and length;b, the torch-body, that is formed into tubular shape to hold thecombustible compound with which the tube is filled. This body bis formedof a sheet of paper, or like thin and flexible material, that is firstout into the form of the blank 0, as shown in Fig. 1, and then wrappedor rolled upon a suitable core to form a tube, and the handle may formpart of such core, the material being so covered with glue .or paste asto hold it to the handle and in the tubular form when dry. There is thusformed a tube closed at one end, where it is fastened to the handle, andthis tube is filled with any suitable and well-known composition tomake, when burning, a bright flame, usually of red or green color.

I am aware that torches have been heretofore made in which the tubularbody does not burn away with the composition, and also that others havebeen made in which the tube is consumed. (See patent to Edge, No. 28,661, of June 12, 1860.) In each instance, however, the outer end of suchtube has-been closed by a special cap or cover separate from and notintegral with the main body of the tube. My attention has been called tothe patent to J. R. Powell, of September 8, 1885, as showing a wrapperfor a fuse with an integral extension of less width than the body of thewrapper; but my improved torch has a wrapper of improved constructionand for a different purpose, as compared with the squibcover of Powell;but the tube and cover of my improved torch are formed of one and thesame piece, and this is effected by using a blank, 0, of thefollowing-described form; and I am also aware that torches have beenmade of a wrapper of thin paper with an inner wrapper of tin-foil, thelatter arranged to project above the paper portion of the case, to form,when bent inward, a water-proof covering for the composition in thetorch, as shown in the patent to Lilliendahl, No. 23,529. The blank ismade of paper or like combustible material that is fiexible, tough, andsufficiently impervious to hold the composition, cut preferably to arectangular outline,witl1 a projecting part, d, on the upper edge of thewrapper or blank. When the blank is rolled into tubular form, the wallsare of a single thickness at the upper end and of several layerselsewhere;

and this thin wall is readily closed down upon the contents of the tubeby folding it down on four sides in succession and pasting or gluing thefolds together, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The edge e of the blank forms a shoulder in the tube, that is used as agage in filling, and also aids in closing the end of the tube, the wallof which bends readily over the shoulder. By the use of this blank I amenabled to make a tube with walls that are rigid enough to protect andhold the filling and thin enough at the end to form a cover integralwith the body.

To use the torch the folds of the cover are torn open and lighted andthe tube and contents burned.

I use wrappers on different torches of a color that denotes the color ofthe flame produeed in burning the torch, and this may be a single coloror several in succession.

My improved torch is light, compact, and I the mass folded down over theshoulder l0 cheapin construction, and can beeonveniently formed by theedge e to close the end and packed, carried, and used, owing to thepecufastened by glue, and the combustible filling, liar method of itsconstruction. all substantially as described.

I claim as my invention- In combination, in a torch, a non-co'uduet-JOHN SIBLEY' ing handle, a, a. tubular body, b, made of the \Vitnesses:successive layers of the single paper blank 0, CHAS. L. BURDETT, withits integraLprojection d on the outside of 4 H. R. WILLIAMS.

